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- 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4
disasters had a positive impact. Firms' philanthropic history and communities' inter-corporate network cohesion moderated some of these effects. This study extends institutional and community literatures by illuminating the geographic View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments
voicemail messages. Now their words are much more authentic and can be remarkably empowering. Social networking is also flattening organizations by distributing access to information. Everyone is equal on the social network. No... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 25 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business
functionalities and markets, and also those that will perform the most fundamental functions, which in my view are search and payments. Another category of winners will be of course the owners of valuable content—be it games, music or movies—software platforms will... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
Michael Norton wrestles with in his provocative public policy–oriented research. In one 2011 nationwide survey, for example, Americans asked to estimate their country’s wealth distribution told Norton (and his collaborator, Dan Ariely)... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
All in the Family
distribution of wealth, to the effects that life events such as births and deaths, marriages and divorces, and hirings and retirements have on a business. Davis and his Generation to Generation coauthors have also developed a powerful... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/716426-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 716-446 IC Group A/S IC Group owned several of Scandinavia's leading premium fashion brands. How should it respond to the decline of its primary wholesale View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
ideas for how the distribution chain should be managed, and several men rose to defend her position. “She’s endlessly fascinating as an outspoken advocate for this campaign, and as an outspoken woman at a time when there were very few... View Details
- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
disruptive to retail video rental chains. The combination of a large national inventory, a recommendation system that drove viewership across a broad catalog, and a large customer base made Netflix a force to be reckoned with, especially as a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 9
differences appear to be associated with different models of development—open, distributed organizations developing systems with smaller cores. We find that core components are often dispersed throughout a system, making their detection... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
abundant channel capacity, cable could become the savior of American television, which had become a "vast wasteland" in the hands of greedy capitalists. 12 In "wired cities," citizens could produce their own programming and View Details
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
Confidential Instructions for Johnson & Johnson Guhan Subramanian and Rhea GhoshHarvard Business School Exercise 911-045 This two-party negotiation exercise features a real-life dispute between Merck and Johnson & Johnson regarding European View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018
Party City In 2005, Berkshire Partners, a Boston-based private equity firm specializing in growth equity, was one year into their ownership of Amscan, the market leader of designed, manufactured, and distributed decorated party goods and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy
businesses. They also distributed shares of the bank to the state governor or made a loan to the local state government—with the understanding that it most likely would not be repaid. A number of countries have experienced political... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
different operations to look beyond their silos to consolidate operations and share best practices to lower costs. Similarly, firms such as big-box retailers that centralize merchandising and distribution to deliver low prices must ensure... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan
in its marketing. In the period since the Internet boom, there have been a large number of very conspicuous successes.—John A. Deighton Physical distribution of groceries in the United States is a marvel of logistics. It's amazingly... View Details
- January 2025
- Teaching Note
Vytal: Packaging-as-a-Service
By: George Serafeim, Michael W. Toffel and Stacy Straaberg
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 124-007. The Germany-based startup Vytal operated the largest digital-native reusable packaging-as-a-service network globally, having raised nearly €15 million, established a large network of restaurant partners, and prevented the use of... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Innovation and Invention; Business Growth and Maturation; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Startups; Resource Allocation; Risk Management; Adoption; Strategy; Performance Productivity; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Supply Chain; Distribution; Entrepreneurship; Climate Change; Business Model; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Profit; Financing and Loans; Expansion; Green Technology Industry; Service Industry; Retail Industry; Germany; Europe
- 22 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
show that, even in a world with perfect capital markets and without differences in innate ability, wealthy parents invest, on average, more in their offspring than poorer ones. As a result, persistence of economic status is higher at the top of the income View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
transformed the definition of marketing in the company. Under Guler’s lead, OPET, once a local player in the downstream distribution market, became the second largest fuel distributor in Turkey. As assistant general manager, Guler had... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
of distributed innovation and its potential merits as a corporate problem solving mechanism is discussed. Issues related to TopCoder's scalability, profitability, and growth are also explored. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits
pay the U.S. statutory rate no matter where it invested and would make the decision on purely pretax rates of return. The goal of that regime is to leave the distribution of capital undistorted. Indeed, this path of thinking has been... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne